Taipei City in innovating with the (very fast) deployment of the “U-bike” system, almost identical to the Vélib‘ system launched in Paris with great success on 15 July 2007. The service provider is Taishin Bank (!), the bikes themselves are manufactured by local world leader Giant and the payment system is managed by TSCC. The [...]

Direct quote from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, transcript from Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC, August 13th:
- CRAMER: RIGHT NOW PREDOMINATELY DESKTOP, BUT COUNTRIES LIKE JAPAN, MOBILE COMPUTING. IS THAT GOING TO BE UP TO SNUFF AND CAN YOU MAKE AS MUCH MONEY IN MOBILE COMPUTING BECAUSE OF THE CELL PHONE COMPANIES?
- SCHMIDT: [...]

Yesterday we had the pleasure to welcome in our Taipei office M. Boaz Zilberman, CA & Co-Founder of Fring. Before he left we asked him if we could make a short interview of himself :

Interview of Boaz Zilberman - CA of Fring by Toro Blogenvoyé par Toro-Asia

Observers keep scrutinizing the Japanese market to discover new mobile user behaviors, and they praise Mobile Felica as THE example to follow for the (future) expansion of NFC (Near-Field Communication). Indeed, figures of the penetration of the Osaifu-Keitai (Felica mobile wallet) are quite impressive with about 25 million phones equipped with the application. More impressive [...]

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